11 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Beauty

Rabindranath Tagore quotes on beauty

34. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ~ 45

37. O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts. . . You are one-half woman and one-half dream. ~ 59

46. Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal being; truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind. We individuals approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experience, through our illumined consciousness- how, otherwise, can we know truth?

47. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

49. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

63. Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire- all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its soul in beauty. This must be your contribution to the world.

88. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

90. Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.

92. Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwelling houses. To be able to love material things, to clothe them with tender grace, and yet not be attached to them, this is a great service. Providence expects that we should make this world our own, and not live in it as though it were a rented tenement. We can only make it our own through some service, and that service is to lend it love and beauty from our soul. Your own experience shows you the difference between the beautiful, the tender, the hospitable, and the mechanically neat and monotonously useful.

144. The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the soul of man.

180. When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Then only can he see that what is unpleasant to us is not necessarily unbeautiful, but has its beauty in truth.